Client/Server distribution and the nature of the client (end user device) itself are important factors in understanding distributed architecture. If the client just features a UI, the server is doing ...

What’s the big IT story of 2016 going to be? All fingers seem to be pointing at Bitcoin, along with the blockchain architecture that empowers its distributed nature. There are two reasons why Bitcoin ...

Roughly five years ago, power management met an inflection point in system design. The forced-air-cooling budget for racks in telecom and datacom applications had reached a ceiling. The proliferation ...

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The requirements placed on distributed power architectures continue to expand beyond the initial goal of dealing with power distribution problems associated with high load currents required by low ...

Organizations now transfer their application systems to cloud platforms, which leads to the development of software systems that use distributed microservices instead of traditional monolithic ...